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Spectrum IT's client are looking to hire a Contract PHP Developer to join their development team, focusing on a mixture of legacy work (Vanilla PHP) and assisting the Development Manager in this new leading and inventive role. You will be part of a team that designs, builds, tests, delivers and supports the clients ever growing web-based products and services. This is an OUTSIDE IR35 role, 6 month initial contract with opportunity to extend. Please note this is a hybrid working role requiring 3 days per week in the Clients office in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Main Duties:
- Bring a creative but practical approach to maintaining and enhancing the clients software based products.
- Deliver innovative new developments and additions to current systems and functionality
- Oversee the programming and technical development of the products and services
Essential Technical Attributes:
- In-depth knowledge and experience of programming PHP 5.0 or 7.0 (MVC)
- Experience of Object Oriented programming and design patterns
- Thorough understanding and experience in writing Unit Tests
- Experience of PHP Frameworks e.g. Zend, Codeigniter etc. (Not CMS, Drupal, WordPress etc)
- Comfortable working on legacy code and projects: Vanilla PHP
- Hands-on knowledge of using either MYSQL or Microsoft SQL SERVER
- Knowledge of administrating Apache
- Experience of working in a Unix/Linux environment
Nice to have Technical Attributes:
- Experience of Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Worked in an Agile environment (e.g. SCRUM or Kanban)
- Knowledge of administrating Apache
- Experience of internet technologies (Java, Web Services, SOAP, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax)
- Relational database design
- Experience of GIT source control
- Experience of Jira/Stash/Confluence
- Secure coding experience
For more information and to submit your interest, please apply with an updated CV.
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
